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Next-to-leading mass singularities in two-loop electroweak singlet form factors

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-05 v2

Abstract

We consider virtual electroweak corrections to the form factors for massless chiral fermions coupling to an SU(2)xU(1) singlet gauge boson in the asymptotic region sMW2s\gg M_W^2, where the invariant mass ss of the external gauge boson is much higher than the weak-boson mass scale. Using the sector-decomposition method we compute mass singularities, which arise as logarithms of s/MW2s/M_W^2 and 1/ϵ1/\epsilon poles in D=42ϵD=4-2\epsilon dimensions, to one- and two-loop next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. In this approximation we include all contributions of order αlϵklogj+k(s/MW2)\alpha^l \epsilon^{k} log^{j+k}(s/M_W^2), with l=1,2l=1,2 and j=2l,2l1j=2l,2l-1. We find that the electroweak two-loop leading- and next-to-leading-logarithmic mass singularities can be written in a form that corresponds to a generalization of Catani's formula for massless QCD.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401087,
  title  = {Next-to-leading mass singularities in two-loop electroweak singlet form factors},
  author = {S. Pozzorini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401087},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

38 pages. Minor modifications. Version published in Nucl.Phys.B

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